A multi-enclosure study investigating the behavioural response of meerkats to zoo visitors

• We studied the effect of visitors on three small groups of zoo meerkats. • We studied meerkat response to regulated and unregulated visitor conditions. • Signage and presence of personnel effectively reduced intensity of visitor behaviour. • Meerkats did not adjust their behaviour in response to t...
Ausführliche Beschreibung

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Autor*in:

Sherwen, Sally L. [verfasserIn]

Magrath, Michael J.L.

Butler, Kym L.

Phillips, Clive J.C.

Hemsworth, Paul H.

Format:

E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2014

Schlagwörter:

Visitor behaviour

Human–animal interactions

Animal welfare

Meerkats

Zoo visitors

Umfang:

8

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: The first record of a bryophyte in Upper Cretaceous amber from Taimyr, northern Siberia: Taimyrobryum martynoviorum gen. et sp. nov. (Bryopsida) - Ignatov, Michael S. ELSEVIER, 2016transfer abstract, an international scientific journal reporting on the application of ethology to animals used by man, Amsterdam [u.a.]

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:156 ; year:2014 ; pages:70-77 ; extent:8

Links:

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DOI / URN:

10.1016/j.applanim.2014.04.012

Katalog-ID:

ELV039229610

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